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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3h
Have to be clear just how dangerous this is. If it continues, it effectively removes constitutional rights from an entire class of people. Imagine you had to fear that if you criticize the regime, any error on paperwork filled out by your family decades ago could be used to strip your citizenship.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h
Jeffries has one weak-sauce joint statement on the raid on his press release page. Schumer, can't find anything at all. Those two are going to go down in history as some of the most aggressively stupid politicians we've had, people who, when the moment demanded leadership, were cowards.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 21h
You can hate Ilhan Omar’s political views, you can even hate her as a person. In fact they’re counting on people not liking her to make it easier. But this is an outrage, and every day it continues, the more radioactive hitler particles we’re all exposed to.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Polish Foreign Minister responds to claims that Musk strangled Starlink access to Ukrainian forces costing Ukrainian lives.
Radosław Sikorski
@sikorskiradek
Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?
As your European customers, we are watching you.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have long argued that media doesn’t focus enough on Stephen miller and I think it’s partly because he’s so repulsive that even the trumpists want to pretend he doesn’t exist and this seems to support that theory!
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Attack on Pearl Harbor raises questions about the Japanese Empire's commitment to peace in the Pacific
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The raid on Rep. Omar is a FIVE ALARM FIRE. Trump is weaponizing the federal government to go after an opposition leader and escalate his viciously racist campaign against Somali Americans. We stand with Ilhan.
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ruth @ruthmensch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
RJ Mitte did so much for disability rights and representation, on top of being an enormous acting talent. May his memory be a blessing.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh Wow.
Tweet one:
James Talarico posts a picture with Kacey Musgraves.

Tweet two:
Kristi Noem responds "I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.

And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico."

Tweet three:
Kacey Musgraves responds "I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
this was the conclusion of the Castillan crown while he was literally still fucking alive
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CLAIM: ICE violated the law in multiple ways in this complete hash of an enforcement effort. FACT: Squirrel!!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is the correct energy. No respect to Republicans, KKK, or any other hate group.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
theonion.com
DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Couldn’t find the gift link. So maybe paywalled. But incredibly detailed analysis if identity and violent rep of off agent in yesterdays shooting in nyc www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1.8 million dollars can provide the vaccine for thousands of kids preventing chronic hepatitis b and its consequences. Not funding a study which essentially uses children as guinea pigs for a moot hypothesis of a study that WILL cause harm.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This study was unethical when it was announced last year and it remains unethical today. The birth dose of the hepatitis b vaccine prevents perinatal acquisition of the infection. You cannot randomize a group of newborns to not receive it while giving it to others. www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u...
linkedin.com
Hepatitis B vaccine study condemned as unethical wins approval from Danish university
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.st
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Again, the red background here, priceless.
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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE agents have shot yet another person in the street, this time a man in his car in the Bronx while his small child sat in the backseat. www.reuters.com/world/us/per...
reuters.com
New York City man shot in car with child present by ICE agents, mayor says
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a ​child present in the vehicle in the Bronx borough of New York City, ‌according to the mayor, city po...
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Jeff Domingues @jeffdomingues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes the articles of impeachment write themselves.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins in a nutshell ↘️ "[L]ike an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out" 💥 #mepoltiics
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/10/2026
The history of big companies excitedly acquiring Warner Bros and then trying to hastily dump it a few years later gives me hope that this latest acquisition will also be a total clusteruck disaster for the acquirer
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*people* make the design & engineering & business decisions that are behind every one of these types of stories…
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remind me again why Democrats can't say a word about red rural America being anything but God's country.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
that this is over the daylight savings bill of all things is ten times funnier
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution. SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
lawdork.com
After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botches the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Democrats who refused to move to impeach the monster doing this are just as responsible for all the deaths that will result in the meantime as everyone else who has been refusing to do anything to stop it.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2026
between the metaverse, the pervert glasses, and now this fuzzy avatar mess, Meta is on a generational run of real-world Black Mirror episodes
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026
order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of
certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether
the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U.S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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jmdjameson.bsky.social @jmdjameson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Cornell administration has to go. As if running over students and capitulation to Trump were not bad enough.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is about as upset as a NYT reporter is allowed to get:”An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten says his office is reopening the investigation into the 2024 gang rape of a student at a Cornell University fraternity abcnews.com/US/district-...
abcnews.com
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a reminder, she’s the Secretary of Education not the Secretary of Labor
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is so fucking stupid that it made my eyes bleed.
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